Google's internal machine provisioning model was already automated and accessible via an API, it would have been recognizable as a "cloud", but it was internal only. The kernel changes that enabled OpenVZ and Docker were done by Google engineers.
In the same way OpenAI shipped a business on transfomers (invented by Google). Google invents stuff, but then is last to its own party.
Or the Ramones of the 70s. They play a show and everyone in the audience goes home and starts a punk band and becomes wildly more successful (across multiple definitions of “success”).
In the same way OpenAI shipped a business on transfomers (invented by Google). Google invents stuff, but then is last to its own party.
Looks like GCP has existed since 2008, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform
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